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I caved in an ordered a copy of "A Slice Of the Top"... with BN folding down their reissue activities (or so it looks to me at least) I guess it wasn't a bad move and it was still around for less than 20$ last week. But I will likely just store it away somewhere so that the day when I hear my final new Mobley album won't take place too soon yet

As far as I understand, actual surface shipping does no longer exist. The difference between priority and economy mail is that if you opt for the first, your package *should* go with the first flight, while if you opt for the later, it may lay around for a while and get shipped whenever there's some space... that's how they explained it to me in a local post office. Now back on topic: the H.R.S. set is very beautiful, chock-full of great music, many sessions by musicians that you might only know as sidemen, many discoveries to be made there! I'd not call it essential in its entirety, but it's very, very good, and one of my personal favourite Mosaic boxes!

yup, more congratulations, missed this thread earlier on!

The Navarro/Dameron (which is more Dameron/Navarro actually, I always look under "D" first and then remember that Navarro was listed first, for whatever reason...) is terrific, absolutely essential stuff!

Oh yes, they URGENTLY have to reissue "Golden 8" on CD before they get eaten up by the short bald speculating guys!!! On the other hand, how can the well be dry when they have a new Willie Nelson album with Norah Jones AND Diana Krall??? :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited:

Sad news, seems he was a true original. I only have his two hatOLOGY CDs (and have heard one of the ECMs once) and am not quite sure what to make of his microtonal concepts and all, but even though I never turned into a big fan, I found it all sort of a appealing (at least in theory, but I actually do like the two CDs). There was a story on Mat Maneri in The Wire once, where he talked some about his father and his musical concepts. I found that very interesting (and I think it was around the time that the ThirstyEar disc of Mat's w/Joe McPhee was released... not sure that having McPhee on his disc is actually proof of Mat's greatness, but the discs I've heard of his - mostly hatOLOGYs as well, including some w/Matthew Shipp - are quite good, I find).

Thanks for all the recs - wasn't aware of the previous thread, will read it!

Can the US of A be sued for not releasing this 1940 recording? It should be declared cultural world heritage and distributed freely to all households all over the world. I'm sure the world would be a better place! Ya know, it might actually bring some of those terrorists to senses, just as Dizzy initiated the perestroika when he visited Greece with his big band in 1957... or some such But I'd (almost) kill to hear that recording, that's for sure!

hm, that should have been posted here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=54279 not sure what exactly happened, first I lost my fast reply then it ends up in a wrong thread... anyway, since this is a Lester Young thread I would have ended up posting something of little importance here anyway, sooner or later...

Some of the material was also on Black Lion. I remember reading about such releases in a Penguin guide (prob. ed. 3, the first one I have). I haven't compared it all, but I guess with the three Fantasy Bud CDs you get a fair selection of those recordings originally on Mythic Sound. The all stars 1949 session (on "Bebop") isn't included there, I think. And the decision to include the whole trio session with Panama Francis is indeed a bit a weird one, but there's plenty to enjoy on the three CDs!

I didn't think of checking AMG - indeed there's a little biography written by Eugene Chadbourne: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...f9fpxq95ldhe~T1 Jim, what discs would you recommend? I only have Basso here and there as a sideman (w/Dusko Goykovich for instance).

I just found this on a blog and went looking it up. Only found some Italian news via google: http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/regioni/pi..._120402208.html There seems to be no English wiki entry either, but here's the Italian one: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianni_Basso

holy crap, just had a long list typed up... Miles and Duke were leading off (150 and 130 I think), then Coltrane, Mingus, Monk, Oscar Peterson, and a few others in the 40-60 category, and too many to even remember a third of them in the 40, 30, 20 and 15 categories, but including: Lionel Hampton, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Horace Silver, Jimmy Smith, Hank Mobley, Artie Shaw, Woody Shaw, Randy Weston, Art Ensemble, Cecil Taylor, Art Tatum, Django, Benny Goodman, Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, and many others... that sucks, having culled together these names for half an hour and then all's gone

Yes, alas it seems that was it. It's sad, but on the other hand, what an amazing achievement it was!

I absolutely love this one - it's of a freer kind, but it's of stark beauty: http://www.leorecords.com/?m=select&id=LeoLab_009 Alphea was formed in Hamburg 1991. The duo has performed in jazz clubs, art galleries and on jazz and contemporary music festivals, playing music structured exclusively by their own concepts. Hannes Wienert (alto and soprano saxophones, trumpet) studied visual arts. Peter Niklas Wilson (double bass) has performed and recorded with John Tchicai, Marion Brown, Derek Bailey and Anthony Braxton. 12 tracks, total time 62'21

I don't think I was harsh or anything, just short in a no-bs way... no intention to offend anyone, and happy to hear about Chris' activities on other jazz boards (which I don't read, so I had no idea). Anyway, I'm happy to help stirring up things a bit and generating some interest in Westbrook!

Hi Chris - maybe you could share some knowledge and join discussions before trying to sell stuff here? Doubtless, the Westbrooks are great artists and you'll find some interest in their music here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=6856

Oscar Peterson - The Songbooks (the Brown/Thigpen box from Verve Canada) - just about to finish disc 1 (Cole Porter and Richard Rodgers songbooks)

Well, the overflow can't be objective of course. And it's not a list of particular records - it's a sense of a personal limit having been reached, the returns having diminished too far. I'm not talking about a run-of-the-mill kind of listening here, the kind where you check out an artist and like them somewhat, but think you've got as much out of them as you're going to after a couple of albums, or like you describe, buying up a lot of records because you know there's good stuff on them all, even if they're not consistent - that kind of casual relationship to an artist's music I probably wouldn't think about in these terms, or at all. I'm talking about the limits of a relationship to music that has been deeply important to you. I'm a searcher too, but searches run their course. Now, if an unlogged Mobley album was dug up and released tomorrow, I'd be ordering it immediately. But dealing with finite bodies of work as we are, for me eventually having the music in your life in a 'new' or fresh way doesn't mean having ever more different (and almost always lesser) recordings, but having again and again, every day, the old stuff in your head and/or other parts of your body because it's so fully internalised. The fact that my internal MP3 player is at this moment running its hundred thousandth playing of The Breakthrough, and in some way animating me as it always does even though I'm not actually hearing it, it is much more of a testament to Mobley in my life now than, say, dutifully listening for the first time to a relatively underwhelming concert bootleg. Of course I want to hear the new stuff, but I may not hunt it down now as much as the old stuff keeps hunting me down. So even if there's overflow, it doesn't mean the cup is not ... well, you see the metaphor. Yup, I can see what you're saying! Interesting... it's just that with me, curiosity most often gets the better, and I'll end up stacking up stuff even if i might never internalise it and absorb it to a point it would deserve, or even if I clearly understand that this or that I totally don't "need"...

Here's the thread I meant, finally a search for Billie Poole brought it up http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=49475

What would be the overflow? The Flip, the date with Eddie Diehl? Mogie's Caramba, Charisma, Taru, Cornbread, which of Blakey's Morgan/Shorter quintet albums, which of Smith's Blue Notes? ... hard to define that, I find, and I usually don't. I rather have most of these, and instead of having least favourites, I have preferred ones (Morgan's The Rajah for instance makes that list, and that would be one of the first choices for "overflow" by most, I assume). I certainly know what you're talking about, but it's not a way of operation I usually chose... too much a completist/searcher, always looking for more... (you know, ok, that might just be an ok album, but hey, I still want it... happened most recently with The Band's albums... thought I might skip Cahoots, Moondog Matinee and Islands, but no, Cahoots has the great title track, Don't Do It, Moondog has that great old-fashioned sound and Garth Hudson on sax on several tunes, and Islands... well, after having all the other albums I just wanted to have it as well, and for sure there are some great songs there... this as a way of explaining how I operate...)

This one? Those don't seem to have been newly released here in the US. Yes, I think that's the list, but there was another thread about those reissues. saw some of them in the "new releases" part of a local shop a few months ago - they weren't out here back when that thread was started!

Nah... I miss one of Mobe's albums (Slice Of the Top) and have but a CDR of one of the Monday Night sessions... but somehow it's good like that, because on the day that changes, there won't be any new Mobley to discover for me! That would (will, actually...) be a pretty sad day...

Yeah, Murray is someone I haven't started digging into, really... I have five or six of his discs and there seem to be plenty other great ones out there. He might be - like Sonny Stitt, for instance - one of those who simply released too much for most fans to really follow his path? But then I guess the same could be said about Miles... or Oscar Peterson (where I have a fair amount of material now but will likely not buy anything more for some years now).